Henry Carter Hull

A collection of intertwining stories, each with a differnt narrator, which combine to chronicle the major and minor, events, occurrences, developments, of the twentieth century.

"A final book like no other" from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum : poetry and meditations on writing, aging, and living until the end ( The Irish Times ). In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, Günter Grass weaves his life's reflections together into a witty and elegiac swansong: love letters, soliloquies, jealous musings, social satire, and moments of happiness long to be shared. As the inimitable German fabulist...

Collection of twelve short pieces, representing thirty years of writing by John Irving, including three memoirs, three essays of appreciation, and six fiction stories.